I'll be taking a week-long trip to Boston in a couple days, so I need to get my little garden prepared for my absence. I planted some of these seeds a couple weeks ago and the plant has gone gangbusters thanks to Tropical Storm Darby's rain and subsequent humidity. When I get back, I want to see this:
Unfortunately, if you don't provide indeterminate tomato plants with sufficient support, you'll end up with a sprawling mess of diseased leaves and broken stems. My previous efforts were lackluster. . . sticks tied together with a bit of netting strung between for support. I'd post a picture, but I'm too embarrassed. I got some decent tomato yields using those lackluster supports, but I knew I could do better. So I bought this 50-foot roll of galvanized re-mesh wire and some badass bolt cutters and got to work. For a 2-foot diameter cylinder, I cut off a little over 6 feet (remember circumference = π*d? neither did I) and found a couple of lovely assistants to help secure cable ties on all the intersecting corners:
The end result gives my aggressive tomato plant 7-feet of durable rust-resistant trellis to climb while I'm away:
I really can't wait to see where this grows. Until next time, steem on!